Kerstin Helgason, PMHNP
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Board Certified ​​
Kerstin is a Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Psychiatric nurse practitioners are similar to psychiatrists and can  prescribe psychiatric medications, diagnose mental health problems, and provide psychotherapy.  Kerstin is accepting new patients and sees people ages 13 years and older.

If you're ready to actively engage in treatment to improve your symptoms and your life, let's talk and get started! 

Services

  • Prescribe psychiatric medications for adults and adolescents.
  • Provide psychiatric evaluation, including diagnosis of mental health conditions and recommendations for options for treatments for adults and adolescents.
    • Common problems include: depression, anxiety, including post-partum depression or anxiety, OCD, bipolar, borderline personality disorder, PTSD and complex PTSD.​
  • ​Provide psychotherapy for adults only. 
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​Quilts, such lovely
​metaphors about life, 
​scraps made whole again. 

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About Kerstin

Quilt maker and survivor.  Mental health care helps people heal emotional wounds by listening to and understanding a person and their life story. Everyone’s story is complex and unique.   Composed from a lifetime of experiences, the story is also the source of healing. Understanding a person and their story helps develop effective treatments that can reduce suffering and nurture self compassion, and is my hope for everyone.

​I am a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and have a Master of Nursing degree as a PMHNP from Oregon Health and Science University and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology degree as a psychotherapist from Pacific University. I completed the Master Psychopharmacology Program, through NEI (Neuroscience Education Institute) and have extensive training in psychopharmacology.

​I have worked with people who have complex mental health problems and diverse backgrounds, and everyone is welcome here.

I mainly prescribe psychiatric medication, but also have experience with Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness and Compassion based therapies, and therapies to help people who have experienced childhood abuse or trauma and specialize in working with people with complex PTSD, a form of PTSD that develops from interpersonal abuse or neglect.

For more information, call or email today.

Gilroy Office

8339 CHURCH STREET,  SUITE 114,  GILROY, CA 95020
Phone 408-767-2337   Fax 415-376-4572
Info@gilroymentalhealth.com
​Gilroymentalhealth.com